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MIAMI - Paul Skidmore's office is shuttered, his job gone, his 18- month job search fruitless and his unemployment benefits exhausted. So at 63, he plans to file this week for Social Security benefits, three years earlier than planned.
All I want to do is work," said Skidmore, of Finksburg, Md., who was an insurance claims adjuster for 37 years before his company downsized and closed his office last year. "And nobody will hire me.
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- Denise Cryder, Plaintiff, James Michael Long, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James Oxendine, Individually and in His Capacity as Chairman of the Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation, Defendant-Appellee, St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Dianne Carter, Individually and in Her Capacity as Senior Claims Adjuster for St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co., Defendants, Natlsco, and Kemper Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees., 24 F.3d 175 (11th Cir. 1994)
Laurence L. Christensen, Marietta, GA, Allan Leroy Parks, Jr., Harlan Stuart Miller, III, Kirwan, Goger, Chesin & Parks, C. Lawrence Jewett, Jr., Offi...
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MIAMI (AP) -- Paul Skidmore's office is shuttered, his job gone, his 18-month job search fruitless and his unemployment benefits exhausted. So at 63, he plans to file this week for Social Security benefits, three years earlier than planned.
All I want to do is work," said Skidmore, of Finksburg, Md., who was an insurance claims adjuster for 37 years before his company downsized and closed his office last year. "And nobody will hire me.
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Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a claims adjuster for a Woodside insurance company has been charged, along with her cou...
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NORMAL - This year's award for the best use of fear by an athlete should go to John Hobson.
The 56-year-old Normal resident and Country Insurance claims adjuster took on a challenge he seriously doubted he could complete.
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An alleged serial killer suspected of raping and strangling as many as 30 older women over two decades in Southern California has been linked by DNA to a 1986 slaying in Claremont.
John Floyd Thomas Jr., a 72-year-old insurance claims adjuster, has been charged with murdering two elderly Los Angeles women in the 1970s and was linked by DNA to at least three other killings in the 1970s and 1980s, authorities said.
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An employee who was a member of a Title VII class action could be fired for breaching her employer's privacy policy by disclosing confidential information in the case to attorneys, the 6th Circuit has ruled. The employee was a female, work-at-home insurance claims adjuster.
After she joined a class action gender discrimination suit against her employer, she felt she experienced retaliation by her male supervisors in the form of reduced communication and unwarranted disciplinary actions.
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MIAMI - Paul Skidmore's office is shuttered, his job gone, his 18- month job search fruitless and his unemployment benefits exhausted. So at 63, he plans to file this week for Social Security benefits, three years earlier than planned.
All I want to do is work," said Skidmore, of Finksburg, Md., who was an insurance claims adjuster for 37 years before his company downsized and closed his office last year. "And nobody will hire me.
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A couple years ago, Mark Hunsaker, a Columbia insurance claims adjuster, grew fed up with watching his clients be victimized by uninsured drivers.
He said he seemed to be writing out a steady stream of claims for men and women caught in fender-benders with drivers who were often unlicensed, uninsured and suspected of driving while under the influence. He became even more steamed when he would open up the newspaper each day, scan the arrest log and find the charge "failure to show proof of insurance" tacked onto some other reckless driving offense.
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MIAMI - Paul Skidmore's office is shuttered, his job gone, his 18- month job search fruitless and his unemployment benefits exhausted. So at 63, he plans to file this week for Social Security benefits, three years earlier than planned.
All I want to do is work," said Skidmore, of Finksburg, Md., who was an insurance claims adjuster for 37 years before his company downsized and closed his office last year. "And nobody will hire me.